How can I tell if my Server will run PHP?

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 1st, 2002, 10:14 PM

Well the place I'm hosted at is abit povo.. and I was wondering if theres any simple piece of code that I could use to see if it'll work..

**Zhiquan** · Sep 1st, 2002, 10:40 PM

make a file called test.php and put the following in it.

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

if u see lots of details, thats good, otherwise, the server doesn't run PHP

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 1st, 2002, 10:44 PM

Nope, comes up blank, with the files source being

VB Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY><PRE></PRE></BODY></HTML>

**The Hobo** · Sep 2nd, 2002, 11:46 AM

That probably means it's not enabled, unless it requires .php3 or .php4 extensions.

**cpradio** · Sep 2nd, 2002, 07:12 PM

That or the hosting company disabled the php_info() function.

You should try an echo command like so:

PHP Code:


<?php

  echo "Hello World!"; // what I geeky phrase, :p

?>

(be sure to name your file with a .php extension)

**cpradio** · Sep 2nd, 2002, 07:13 PM

LOL, I found a bug in vBulletin

**Pc_Madness** · Sep 3rd, 2002, 01:07 AM

Nope

There supposed to be using PHP 4..

Anyways, I asked to be moved to a server were PHP is definately working, or that he get it going on mine.

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